What is love?

     There has been a misconception on what Love is for several years. It is defined by mainstream society as “the butterflies” you get in your stomach when you’re with someone. Others say its feeling special by the way your loved one treats you. A lot of ifs and buts are included in the definition. But is this really love or are we simply not capable of understanding the depth of what its underlying meaning? Is love merely a frail, fleeting feeling to be forgotten tomorrow, or a mystery to be contemplated on?

     To understand love, we must realize that there are no ifs or buts. You do not love someone, if the feeling depends on how they treat you or on how you feel when you’re with them. True love fails to see common sense and reality; instead it blindly pursues what could in fact be detrimental for one’s own well being. Real love is self-sacrificing. It is being truly vulnerable for that one person, who has taken your breathe away. Love is putting someone else’s needs above your own, to be willing to die for someone without a single moment of hesitation. Essentially, to love is to suffer and become truly human. Too many mistake love with an aimless infatuation based on self actualization. Fools love is fleeting and will soon rust, but what is truly genuine will endure the weathering of time.

     Love completes us in a way that no other thing can. We go about our lives in autopilot, trying to find that other part that completes us. Once we find that person who makes us whole, we never want to feel incomplete again. But when looking for love we must not make wrong decisions that will harm us. They say love is blind and so it is all right to make mistakes. But the truth is another: love is not blind; it chooses to see what it wants to see, and there is a difference.

     Love can be the greatest of things, but it can also bring any man to his knees, begging for mercy that will never come.

Joe Calzaghe Dethrones B-Hop

     Last Saturday night thirty six year old super middleweight champion, Joe Calzaghe faced off against the forty three year old light heavyweight champion, Bernard Hopkins for his title, in a much anticipated fight. Boxing fans were not sure if the lightning fast and unrelenting style of Calzaghe would bring home the victory, or if the shrewd, craft of the old veteran would reign supreme. Roy Jones Junior , who defeated Hopkins more than ten years ago, picked Calzaghe to come out victorious in the big show down. He felt that although Hopkins is still a great boxer, the younger and hungrier Calzaghe would be more active in the fight, thus pulling out a decision win. Other boxing analysts also shared the idea that Calzaghe would win by decision. Their expert predictions were not wrong, and the audience in attendance saw Calzaghe, the British fighter fighting for the first time on American soil, get his hand raised after twelve hard fought rounds of boxing to become the undisputed Light Heavyweight Champion of the world.

     The fight started with a flash knockdown, educed by a beautiful placed cross by Hopkins, to the chin of Calzaghe. He found himself on the ground much earlier than anyone could expect, but got up as fast as possible and finished out the round. Calzaghe won the following the round, setting the tone for the rest of the fight. Although Hopkins did win at least two rounds in the fight and seemed to give his opponent troubles with his effective crosses, he simply was not active enough. No one can deny that Hopkins got good shots in and was never dazed, but Calzaghe simply overwhelmed him for all three minutes of all twelve rounds. It was his desire to impose his will and Hopkins’ conformity with landing one shot at a time that made the judges give the challenger the victor.

     Hopkins is by no way washed up, or a has been, but it is about time he considers retirement. He reigned as middleweight champion for more than a decade, won the light heavyweight championship when no one thought he could do it, destroying legends such as Felix Tito Trinidad and Oscar de La Hoya; what more can he prove to the boxing world. While Calzaghe has only elevated his superstardom and should be ready for the big fights and big pay days up ahead.

George St. Piere vs. Matt Serra II

     GSP and Mat Serra fought for the second time this past Saturday night in what was to be a brutal beat down of the current champion. Most ringside experts expected GSP to demonstrate that his opponents win over him had been a fluke, and he proved that point loud and clear. The five foot six Serra fought a hungry and well prepared Goliath, who simply did not let him get intro his groove. GSP pressed the action from the opening bell and was inexorable in his devastating ground and pound. Although it Serra did have to weather the storm in the first round, and barely got out, he did nullify most of GSP’s fatal blows with his world class Jiu Jitsu. GSP, however, proved that his wrestling and passing skills are second to none, taking Serra down at will. All experts watching agree that his performance was top notch and worthy of a superstar of his caliber.

     The meaning of this fight is huge. GSP not only demonstrated that he is not a disgrace, but also that Serra was an underrated fighter, who simply got lucky a year ago. With Matt Hughes considering retirement, there is no one at the present moment that can compare to GSP. He is a menace with striking and vicious on the ground. Maybe some rising superstar in the future will pose a threat, but for now anyone who faces a focused and well prepared George St. Pierre are just guppies. …..The list of MMA fighters who have tasted defeat at the hands of the new champion are: Frank Twigs, BJ Penn, Mat Hughes (Twice), Josh Koshcehck, and now the Matt Serra.

     Serra should not pick himself up and try to work his way up in the UFC ladder. It would seem that the Welterweight division is, however, not his proper weight class. For someone who is five foot six tall, the lightweight division is the best option. With his punching power, and Jiu Jitsu ability, it would only be a matter of time until he is once again wearing a title around his waist.

Great fight, and Good Luck to both fighters.

Gsp Destroys Mat Serra

Margarito vs. Cotto

It’s set, they fight. Antonio Margarito and Miguel Cotto both illustrated virtuoso performances in their respective fights on Saturday. Margarito in the top card of the night fought Carlos Cintron, the man who he had knocked out in the seventh round of their first fight, and for the second time ran right through him. Cintron looked lackluster and unwilling to fight after Margarito relentlessly put devastating pressure, which would wear out any great fighter in his prime. Cintron eventually succumbed to another humiliating defeat in the fifth round. With this win earlier in the night, Margarito impatiently awaited to see if Miguel Cotto would also perform as well in his fight, for if he did, a lucrative pay-per-view fight was certain. 

 

Miguel Cotto did not disappoint his primarily Puertorican audience, and easily dismantled an inexperienced Alfonso Gomez. It even seemed in the fight that Cotto took it easy on Gomez so as to not hurt or humiliate him. He showed to all that were watching on Saturday, the difference between a up-and-coming novice and a superstar such as himself. Cotto was in a class of his own in this fight. This victory, yet again by ko/tko fashion, has brought Cotto closer to the much anticipated show off against Antonio Margarito

 

Now that the fight is set for the end of July, many questions are coming up: who will win, how will he win, and will it make for an exciting night? It is not such a viable task to predict the winner of a fight between to legends of them time. Margarito is known for his relentless offense, iron chin, and will over skill mentality. Cotton, on the other hand, with a great pedigree in amateur boxing, and an equally inexorable style if attack, looks to meet Margarito in the center of the ring. But a key point should be noted, Cotto’s frail chin. Against lesser fighters he has been tested and set to taste the reviled canvas. Margarito’s skill might not measure up to his undefeated opponent, but his heart and ability to continue after being hurt has never been questioned.

 

So who will win Cotto vs. Margarito? Puerto Rico vs. Mexico?

Whatever the result, the boxing world will be treated to a masterpiece no doubt.

Poetry From The Heart II

Thou Shall Not Love

Amid all the pleasures of life,

Love is the one that shall destroy thee,

Either with the edge of a piercing knife,

Or with the cumbersome excess of gushing glee.

 

What man would be so brave,

To give out his heart unconditionally,

Expect no more than he once gave,

And be ready to fall so ardently.

 

Only a fool would play such a game,

Wagering his heart,

With everything to lose and so little to gain. 

 

 

Her Whose Beauty Blinds

Walking down an endless path,

I see her whose beauty blinds,

A seductive stare only perfection hath,

An enticing smile that deliberately binds,

And submerges a heart in a heavenly bath.

 

As the golden hair unravels from her finger,

She bites her luscious lips ever so tender,

Fretfully causing me to wonder if this feeling will endlessly linger.

 

The lids open eliciting two seas of green,

That drown me in an a dreadful instant,

But keep me afloat to witness the greatest portrait man has seen.

 

She smirks with such graceful coy,

Forcing a blush from the proudest of men,

Instilling in them this feeling of joy.

 

Lustfully walking away,

She pilfers the dreams of an oblivious horde,

Keeping all hope bleakly at bay.

 

Reason and fascination collide,

Only to find this beauty is a lie.

Much like wolves and sheep cannot together dine,

She and I shall never intertwine,

 

Nevertheless I shall continue to waste in sighs.  

 

 

 

 Yeats: Never Give All The Heart

NEVER give all the heart, for love
Will hardly seem worth thinking of
To passionate women if it seem
Certain, and they never dream
That it fades out from kiss to kiss;
For everything that’s lovely is
But a brief, dreamy. Kind delight.
O never give the heart outright,
For they, for all smooth lips can say,
Have given their hearts up to the play.
And who could play it well enough
If deaf and dumb and blind with love?
He that made this knows all the cost,
For he gave all his heart and lost.